Audie Murphy WTO (id:#58751)

Sherry Enterprises (Schwerpunkt # 5: Medal of Honor ID: SP49)   [next]   [previous]

Holtzwihr, France 1945-01-26 (4 others)

Overview:

2LT Audie L. Murphy began his first day in command of B Company in the Reidwehr woods. During the night his thirty-two man company was reinforced with two M-10 tank destroyers and given orders to hold his position at the bottom of a “U” shaped patch of woods that faced the village of Holtzwihr, from which he could hear the sounds of German tanks and infantry assembling. At 1400, the Germans stormed out of Holzwihr with 250 infantrymen clad in white snow capes, supported by six tanks. Both M-10s were almost immediately knocked out. Murphy ordered his men to pull back, while he remained forward with his field phone to call for artillery. . .

Defender: American (B Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment)  

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